All posts tagged food inflation

Every time there is a flare up in food prices in India, policy makers are quick to point fingers at a nefarious national network of “hoarders” who apparently fill up their godowns with scarce commodities, hoping to profit as the rest of the country suffers.

Even the newest leaders in New Delhi are playing the same blame game with declarations about alleged hoarding activity and raids.

The country’s wholesale price index likely rose 5.80% in April from a year earlier, according to a poll of 12 economists by The Wall Street Journal. The index increased 5.70% in March, which was its fastest rise in three months. Read More »

The price of onions has been known to impact election results in India, so India Real Time set out to ask consumers in Delhi whether recent price rises would make them change the way they vote in upcoming elections. Read More »

Indian shoppers are packing an extra vegetable or two into their grocery baskets as food prices have started easing in recent weeks, but the amount of rain in the upcoming monsoon period will be crucial to determine where prices go next. Read More »

Food inflation has been a persistent problem in India in the past few years, and shortages aren’t the only reason. Politicians and economists are now pointing to one particular problem: the agency that regulates the middlemen who handle food transactions.

This year has been a bad one for the Indian stock market but some analysts say the gloom-and-doom scenario is overstated.

This year has been a bad one for the Indian stock market, which performed among the world’s worst. Inflation continues to rage, there are signs of slowing economic growth and bribery allegations against companies are surfacing with alarming regularity, taking their toll on the companies’ shares.

But some analysts are starting to say the gloom-and-doom scenario is overstated and that there’s actually money to be made in India’s stock market. Read More »

Among the products that have seen sharp price rises is raw cotton, the price of which has doubled over the past year.

Indian authorities have a new headache in their prolonged battle against inflation: the rising price of items other than food.

Prices of non-food primary articles have skyrocketed over the past year, dealing a blow to the efforts of the government and the central bank, which have been struggling to rein in intolerably high inflation. Read More »

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